Misc Originals – Benjammin - Tomorrow Becomes Today (Guitar)

D
The coffee’s black and the kitchen’s humming low,

            G                      A
Watching shadows dance on the linoleum.

          Bm                                   G
I’ve got two gold rings sitting in a dresser drawer,

D                  A                    D
Reminders of the wars I don’t fight no more.

    G                                     D
I used to wake up wishing I was someone else,

     G                                          A
Dealing with the hand that I’d gone and dealt myself.

           D                                    G
But the sunlight’s hitting dust in a brand-new way,

         D                  A               D
In the quiet space where tomorrow becomes today.

     D
I remember the taste of a gas station dinner,

         G                              A
The hollow-eyed stare in the rearview mirror.

           Bm                                G
I’ve got grease in my pores and dirt in my soul,

        D                  A               D
From digging out of every self-inflicted hole.

      G                                   D
The folks back home had me pegged for a fall,

G                                        A
Waiting on the wreck, backs against the wall.

           D                                                G
But they didn’t see the bridge I was building through the gray,

         D                        A               D
Just to get to the place where tomorrow becomes today.

N.C.                       D                          D
And it don’t feel like lightning, it don’t feel like gold,

                      D                      A
It just feels like a story that finally got told.

                 D
I did it my way, through the blood and the soot,

                     G
With a mountain of “no” underneath my boot.

     D                          A                G
The air tastes different, the ghosts have gone away,

     D                             A              D
And I’m finally standing where tomorrow becomes today.

          D
Now the house is quiet and the hallway’s still,

           G                             A
I ain’t chasing a ghost or a high or a thrill.

             Bm                                       G
’Cause you reached your hand into the middle of the wreck,

      D                  A              D
And pulled that heavy millstone off my neck.

G                                           D
You saw the man beneath the scars and the grit,

      G                                A
The one who was ready to lay down and quit.

         D                                  G
But we picked up the pieces and put 'em in play,

       D                         A               D
Right here in the light where tomorrow becomes today.

         G                                            D
Let ’em talk at the station, let ’em whisper at the store,

G                                 A
I ain’t the man I was a decade before.

        D                          G
Every “told you so,” every “he’ll fail,”

      D             A             D
Was just more wind in myyyyyyy sail.

                    D          N.C.
’Cause I did it my way, through the blood and the soot,

                     D         N.C.
With a mountain of “no” underneath my boot.

                  D                        A
They bet against me, said I’d wither and stray,

                         D               N.C.              
But I’m standing in the light where tomorrow becomes today.

D   N.C.
Where tomorrow becomes today

              D
Yeah, the mountain’s behind me,

      G
The valley is mine.

      D
I’m right where I’m supposed to be…

      A                G
With you by my side.

         D              A         D
Yeah, tomorrow looks a lot like today.]